Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-16
BAYARD'S COMMISSION.
A Few Points Given the Public on Meth
DDS to be Employed, Form Of Report
and Place Of Meeting,
But Secrecy Marks the Plans OF the
Unauthorized Convention.
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The day has not vet been fixed for the first
meeting of the joint commission on the fish
cries but il is expected that the first meeting
will be held in the latter part of the present
week and that the negotiations may be con
cluded and a convention agreed upon by the
time Congress meets or shortly thereafter.
Messrs. Angel and Putnam, Secretary Bay
ards associates on the American side of the
commission, have been in Washington pretty
constantly ever since they were appointed to
assist in the negotiations. They occupy
some of the best rooms in the summer House
and of the Arlington Hotel. and spend some
part of every day in.consultation with Secre-
tary Bayard at the Department of State. Mr.
Chamberlain is expected at the Arlington to-
morrow. Sir Charles Tupper from Canada
will arrive about the same time and Sir Lion
el Sackyille West, the other member of the
English end Of the commission is already in
town.
1t i. supposed that they will need but a
very short caucus among themselves before
meeting the American negotiators in full and
free conference Negotiators and not COM
missioners is the name that Secretary Bayard
gives them and full and free conference
he saws is the object of their meeting
The negotiators on both sides it is to BE-
Presumed, are well prepared for their work
Secretary Bayard has had all the preparation
he needs. and Messers Angel and Putnam
both say they are quite ready to meet the
other side Since the time of their appoint
ment they have been assduously posting
themselves Mr.. Angel is an experienced
negotiator of treaties. having been employed
on several previous occasions by both Presi-
dents Grant and llavcS, and Mr.. Putnam is
regarded as first among international lawyers
in America. As for the English side. Sir
Charles Tupper of Canada, has been as
cunver,ant with the subject all along As has
the British minister himself, Sir Lionel
Sackvile West, through whom has been
carried on all the spondence
between Secretary Bayard and the English
government. Mr.. Chamberlain is not a law
yer at all. but he will have ample legal adj
viscrs along with him. lie is shrewd busi-
ness man and an astute politician. rs bus
mess man in birmingham, he knew how to
make millions out of the manufacture OF
simple wood screw, the patent of which he
bought for a trtle. As politician he organ
izcd things 50 a. to elect three liberal mem
bers of Parliament where only two could be
elected before. As president of the board
of trade in Gladstone's administration, from
1854 to 1883. he delighted the freeholders
with his cxpositons of political economy and
proved himself to have wonderful knowl-
edge of the commercial, the maritime and
the colonial interests of England. Sir Chas.
Tuner and Minister West know all the de-
tails of the relations between England and
the United States on this fishery business,
and Chamberlain no doubt brings very def
mite instructions from the foreign office in